Revenge

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To take vengeance;

— with.

II. Revenge ·noun The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

III. Revenge ·vt To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

IV. Revenge ·noun The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an Injury.

V. Revenge ·vt To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, ·etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to Avenge;

— followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.